(A) Any person who connects any instrument, device, or contrivance with any wire supplying or intended to supply electricity or electric current or connects any pipe or conduit supplying gas or water, without the knowledge and consent of the city, in such manner that any portion thereof may be supplied to any instrument by or at which electricity, electric current, gas, or water may be consumed without passing through the meter provided for measuring or registering the amount or quantity passing through it, and any person who knowingly uses or knowingly permits the use of electricity, electric current, gas, or water obtained in the above mentioned unauthorized ways, shall be deemed guilty of an offense.
(B) Any person who willfully injures, alters, or by any instrument, device, or contrivance in any manner interferes with or obstructs the action or operation of any meter made or provided for measuring or registering the amount or quantity of electricity, gas, or water passing through it, without the knowledge and consent of the city shall be deemed guilty of an offense.
(C) When electrical, gas, or water service has been disconnected pursuant to Neb. RS 70-1601 to 70-1615 or § 53.26, any person who reconnects such service without the knowledge and consent of the city shall be deemed guilty of an offense.
(D) Proof of the existence of any wire, pipe, or conduit connection or reconnection or of any injury, alteration, or obstruction of a meter, as provided in this section, shall be taken as prima facie evidence of the guilt of the person in possession of the premises where such connection, reconnection, injury, alteration, or obstruction is proven to exist.
(Prior Code, § 3-1103.01) (Ord. 551, passed 9-2-1997) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 86-329 through 86-331